TAIKI, Hokkaido While many towns in the United States lay claim to the moniker “Spacetown USA,” a town of about 5,400 people here may be in line to be called “Spacetown Japan.”
Sierra Space's Dream Chaser space plane could make touch downs at Spaceport America in New Mexico after completing crucial cargo supply missions to the ISS.
A U.S. space plane operator with a NASA contract to resupply the International Space Station is considering an airport in southwestern Japan as an alternate landing site.
While members of the Raelian UFO religion keep pushing the United Nations and world leaders to build an embassy and space port to welcome extraterrestrials for their inevitable visits, a prefecture in Japan is boasting of hotels offering discounts to any guests who identify themselves as extraterrestrials, and an airport that is now “Asia’s first. Read more »